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What's going on? Packers fans. Welcome into an all new episode of the Packaday podcast. I'm your host, Andy Herman. You can follow me on Twitter at Andy Herman NFL in the podcast at Packaday podcast. This is something that I don't do enough of and we need to do far more often. And that is bringing on the one and only Dusty Evely. You can find them on social media at Dusty Evely. It is great to be chatting with you, my friend. How that are you doing? I'm doing good, man, doing good. You know, it's this time here. You do a better job of this than I do, but trying to fill your days with, what can I talk about football things now? Like, not only is there no football now, there's no football for a while and i know you got the draft stuff i

typically don't do that so i'm currently in the stage of like how do i fill my time my football

writing time what do i do so it's it's an interesting experiment every year so i'm i'm doing good

if a little stressed out on that front but uh doing good man doing good you're smarter than me

to take a period of the season off to refresh the batteries i don don't have that in my wheelhouse yet. Maybe at some point I will. But yeah, the daunting task of trying to jump into the draft full steam is always is always daunting. So I'm getting through prospects now. I do want to mention everyone as well before we jump in too far. We are recording this on February 18th. I know you're hearing this a lot lately as I recorded a bunch of episodes in advance. But again, this is the day after Rich Pesascia got fired, or not fire, but stepped down, I should say. Maybe in the future, you know that he got fired. We do not know that right now. As of right now, it seems like he legitimately just stepped down. I don't know the exact date. I think this is going to air the following Thursday, but just in case you're wondering why Dusty and I are talking about something that is no longer relevant. It's probably just because we're idiots, but more likely it's that we actually just don't know it yet on both fronts. But let's jump in right away, Dusty. As you said, this is

sort of an interesting part of the offseason. We're getting ready for free agency in the draft.

I want to actually start, though, everyone's favorite topic. And that is how the Packers actually

ended the season. And as Brian Gutikins brought up, I think, in about five times in his press conference,

without being asked about it, he said, lost five games in a row, lost five games in a row,

lost five games in a row. And that did, in fact, happen. And of course, injuries were a factor.

Before we jump at, like, what to you, I know you go and you watch the film, you break down the tape,

what went wrong for this team? Because five we can even let's just nuke the minnesota game and just say that one didn't exist they lost four games in a row at the end of the year

games that mattered games they mostly could have won and it did not go their way what did you

see that was a letdown for this team i mean honestly it's stuff that's been biting them for the past couple years. I mean, it's like some disappointing stuff, but just, I mean, there's been some injuries, but also, like, there's just, they're not executing at the level they should execute that. There is still, like, there's still, we always hear about, hear about like youngest team in the league and the rebuttal of that is yeah they played a lot

of games together and like both of those are true but they still play like such a young team and

that's like part of that I never know where to come down on that how much of that is coaching

well you know positional coaching stuff like that because we're still having like not just like not not just young, young guys, but guys who have been there for a while, we're still having like receivers running the wrong routes on like not like it's not a huge issue. It's not as big as it was before, but it's still an issue. We're still having that, that bears playoff game and it happened in the games leading up to that as well. We've got just the offensive line. Just blowing assignments, dude. Just blown assignments. That, I mean, that bears game, that playoff game, that should be a war crime. And that's like, that was Rashid Walker who's been there forever and has won that left tackle job. And it's got and it's stuff that we've seen him do but was not doing in that game

i don't think the bears are doing anything crazy and i mean i think that's true of like

that stretch in particular is it was just lack of execution they had all year they'd been a pretty

efficient offense but they had been leading the league in terms of like explosive plus minus like

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